"To Sarraguce I go, and know full well
Who thither goes, may ne'er return."
Chanson de Roland
French literary historian Léon Gautier died #OTD in 1897.
Gautier rendered great services to the study of early French literature, the most important of his numerous works on medieval subjects being a critical text with translation and introduction of the Chanson de Roland, and Les Épopées françaises.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Gautier_(historian)
La Chanson de Roland at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23819
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